Contributed by Vincent Olaer on May 1, 2011
Christians seems to have forgotten the values and Biblical teachings about divorce and marital relationship. This is because people has been so concerned on the exemptions rather than the Biblical teachings itself. As a result, more and more people wants to justify their own personal view to
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Focus on the Family compiled the following conclusions of the effectiveness of 25 years of addressing the search of intimacy with "safe sex" ideology. (From Fresh Illustrations)
Ten percent of all 15 to 19 year-old females become pregnant each year. ("Kids Having Kids," A Robin Hood Foundation
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 14, 2002
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President Clinton named Kristine Gebbie, a lesbian, as the new AIDS czar. Four months later she spelled out her perceptions on traditional morality. She said, [The United States] “needs to view human sexuality as an essentially important and pleasurable thing. [Until it does so], we will
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Contributed by Dean Johnson on Dec 6, 2005
The author, C.S. Lewis, was writing an analogy. He was saying “This is our world--it is not the way it is supposed to be.”
Why is there so much hate and distrust between people at your work or school or family?
Why do mothers miscarry, and why are babies born with deformities?
Why is there so
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 30, 2004
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Purity is a very important virtue to this 23-year-old singer. Rebecca is a virgin and she says she’ll remain one until she gets married. On her right ring finger, she wears a gold band. During a concert in Colorado Springs, she told her audience: “I’d like to tell you about this ring I’m wearing.
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Aug 1, 2005
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Bruce Wilkinson, author of Prayer of Jabez, said:
Sexual immorality is a threshold sin. On one side of the threshold is immorality and on the other is purity. On one side are guilt, lying, deceit, addiction, and shame, an on the other side are freedom, honesty, transparency, liberty, and a clear
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Contributed by Richard Wafford on Oct 18, 2007
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Perseverance reveals genuine faith. Because Christ lives in us, we can remain courageous and hopeful to the end. We are not saved by being steadfast and firm in our faith, but our courage and hope do reveal that our faith is real. Without this enduring faithfulness, we could easily be blown away by
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Baptist
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Robert Tuttle, in his book Can We Talk explains that people the world over have four needs that don’t change transculturally. He calls them the “Universal Spiritual Laws of Cross Culture.”
1. Everyone needs to measure up to some kind of law.
2. We all have an innate need
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Methodist
Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Jul 22, 2006
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Again emotions would temp us to do what is easy and selfish. When Donna and I were leaving our family at the airport in Montreal for Melbourne we were experiencing emotions we had never experienced before. The temptation would have been to tear up the tickets and stay with our family, but God was
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2008
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Satan is a terrible taskmaster. Here’s a helpful quotation which summarizes his deceit: ‘He promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honour and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure and pays with pain; he promises profit and pays with loss; he promises life and pays with death’
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Baptist
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Steve Auterburn reports how a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua New Guinea reported the power of God’s word. He wrote, “When the opening chapters of Genesis were first translated into the native language, the attitude toward women in the tribe changed overnight. They had not
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Presbyterian/Reformed
always remember there will be consequences to sexual sin. I thought it was interesting to learn that the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports that more than 17,000 deer die each year after being struck by motorists on state highways. And according to Paul Shelton, state wildlife
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 28, 2008
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For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy trinity constituting one god: self), and the other enslaving trio, Pleasure,
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